Jotham’s Parable: The Trees Choose a King. When Abimelech slaughtered his seventy brothers to seize power, only one voice rose from the blood-soaked silence—Jotham’s. Standing atop Mount Gerizim, he didn’t rally soldiers; he preached a story.

Abimelech: The King God Never Chose. Abimelech’s story is one of ambition without calling, leadership without character, and power without purpose. It’s the first attempt at monarchy in Israel—and it ends in total collapse.